But it seems as if Louisa May Alcott may have been more productive then previously thought. Max Chapnick, a postdoctoral researcher at Northeastern University in Boston, believes he’s found previously unknown material that can be attributed to her.

Northeastern University literary scholar Max Chapnick has discovered stories written by Louisa May Alcott for Massachusetts newspapers under a different name. The early stories paint a picture of a burgeoning writer experimenting with form and genre.

But Tick, who is a Professor Emerita of music history at Northeastern University, doesn’t help things by lapsing into academic prose.

“Frankly, this level of inconsistency and confusion will cost lives,” said Leo Beletsky, a professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University in Boston. “The risk of overdosing is burden enough. People looking for [Narcan] shouldn’t face the additional burden of having to ask five people to find a life-saving product.”

Nada Sanders, distinguished professor of supply chain management at Northeastern University, believes these crises won’t be resolved any time soon.

Max Chapnick, a postdoctoral teaching associate at Northeastern University, believes he found about 20 stories and poems written by Louisa May Alcott under her own name as well as pseudonyms for local newspapers in Massachusetts in the late 1850s and early 1860s.

A potential greater threat lies in generative AI tools’ ability to personalize misinformation, making it harder for social media platforms to moderate because it appears authentic, said Laura Edelson, an assistant professor at Northeastern University and co-leader of Cybersecurity for Democracy, who studies political misinformation.

Max Chapnick, a postdoctoral teaching associate at Northeastern University, believes he found about 20 stories and poems written by Louisa May Alcott under her own name as well as pseudonyms for local newspapers in Massachusetts in the late 1850s and early 1860s.

“The easy question to answer is, ‘Are you being transparent? Are you levelling with the public about who you are?’” said Dan Kennedy, a professor at Northeastern University’s School of Journalism in Boston.

“Our health care system is incredibly complicated, but there is nothing in it that gives special preferences to Israelis,” said Wendy Parmet, director of the Center for Health Policy and Law at Northeastern University, in a January 12 email.

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Stanford University, Northeastern University and the Hoover Wargaming and Crisis Simulation Initiative found earlier this month that AI models placed in wargaming simulations tend to escalate conflicts.

This week on the show, psychologist Lisa Feldman Barrett explains how we manufacture our own feelings.